Until paint was produced commercially during the Industrial Revolution (circa 1800), painters had to make their own paints by grinding pigment into oil.[1]

Photography drove painting deeper towards abstraction. [2]

I'm not unsympathetic but the AI revolution might be a similar revolution despite fiddling with code currently being much less pleasant than flinging industrially mass-produced paint from mass-produced tools in a sunlit studio. At least in the medium term, someone will still have to manage the machine.

[1] http://www.webexhibits.org/pigments/intro/paintings4.html

[2] http://www.peareylalbhawan.com/blog/2017/04/12/how-the-inven...